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CRITICISM Detractors consider it to be among the least brilliant periods in Spanish painting, in which there was a highly respectable level of skill, but no significant advancement of the form. This extends as far as the claim that practitioners used enormous canvases, of many meters in surface area, to give importance to something which didn't have any. THEMES Spanish history was a predominant theme, especially from the Middle Ages and the reign of Catholic kings ('' Reyes Católicos ''). Anecdotal and sentimental scenes were the most popular, depicting highpoints of Spanish history with a human perspective, though not venturing beyond the earthly specifics of the subject. The style was frequently boosted by official establishments such as the ''Salones de Otoño (Salons of Autumn)'' and the Spanish Academy itself, which was chiefly interested in rigorous drawing and historical documentation. DEVELOPMENT The subject of landscapes gained prominence with Spanish Romanticism until it became almost exclusive around the time of the Belgian painter Carlos De Haes , the first professor of landscape painting at the Spanish Academy. At the same time, a Catalonian tendency toward urban and bourgeois scenes was developing. It eventually culminated in Catalonian Pre-impressionism , which arrived with Mariano Fortuny and Eduardo Rosales . Fortuny was credited with creating the ''tableautin'' (small ''tableau''), a diminutive format depicting a comic or pleasant theme mainly intended to adorn the interior of a home. ARTISTS The movement was exemplified by Francisco Pradilla Ortiz and Cano De La Peña . Two others, Antonio Gisbert and Casado Del Alisal , were exponents of the bipartisan front for the imperial political regime of the time. SOURCES AND REFERENCES
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